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Thursday, 12 September 2013

Black Magic Tutorial

Hello lovelies! Today's post is my first tutorial for you guys and it's for my Black Magic mani, I have had a few people ask me how it was done so I thought it would be easier to show you. I hope you enjoy this. Shall we make a start then??

You Will Need:

Black Nail Polish (I chose Avon Licorice)

Silver Nail Polish (I chose Avon Starry Sky)

Dotting Tool, cocktail stick or a bobby pin for the dots.

Step By Step:

1. I started by painting 2 coats of my chosen polishes on my nails, I painted Licorice on 3 of my nails first then I used my thumb and ring finger as accents so painted them in Starry Sky.

2. After painting the 2 coats I left my nails to dry completely before going any further to stop me from smudging them. I applied a top coat at this stage too but that's an optional step.

3. Once everything is completely dry I painted the opposite polishes diagonally on half the nail. I used Silver over the black and black over the silver. Mine don't look even because I free handed this part with the brush and painted 2 coats for an even result but if you want your lines to look straight and even I suggest using tape to give it a more professional look.

4. To make the dots I put a blob of each polish (using one polish at a time) onto a damp cotton pad, you can use pretty much anything for this I do suggest using maybe an artist palette or something like the bottom of a tub, something that you can remove the excess polish off of easily. I took my dotting tool and starting with my thumb and ring finger I added 4 silver dots along the line. Then using the black polish I used my dotting tool to add 3 dots on each nail.

This is the cotton pad I used and my dotting tool.

Et Voila, this is how you're finished mani should look. How pretty is this?? I really hope you enjoyed my first tutorial and it was easy to follow. Please be gentle with me and leave me any (nice, lol) feedback you may have.